Sr. Natural Gas Scheduler

Are you an innovative and adaptable self-starter who enjoys optimization and value creation? Are you a critical thinker who can manage natural gas assets and flow gas on an optimal path? Do you want to work for a growing energy company in a highly competitive market? Able to look at a pipeline cut, quickly identify a problem, and take swift steps to adjust nominations? Then the Senior Natural Gas Scheduler may be the job for you!

As a Senior Natural Gas Scheduler, you’ll be responsible for the execution of daily natural gas scheduling and asset dispatch for Gas South’s portfolio of wholesale, retail, and industrial customers across a multitude of markets. You will interact with fellow schedulers from other natural gas suppliers, shippers, and/or marketers, as well as interstate pipelines and local distribution companies, to ensure optimal gas scheduling operations, in accordance with the rules and regulations of pipeline and LDC tariffs. You will work in conjunction with additional Gas South traders and schedulers to meet the needs of wholesale, retail, and industrial transactions.

Are you a fit?

A successful candidate for this role is proactive, curious, and a good critical thinker. You are organized, thorough and appreciate progress. You can see the big picture yet also dig into the details to understand how things work to identify and drive improvements. You can work independently, but also love being part of a team that collaborates to achieve common goals.  

Additional Responsibilities

• Develop professional relationships with schedulers from natural gas counterparties, ensuring effective communication of nomination information.
• Analyze supply needs by pipeline and LDC on a daily and monthly basis, in accordance with critical notices issued by pipelines and LDCs.
• Maintain awareness of current and probable pipeline conditions (e.g., OFOs, constraints, maintenance) and proactively integrate into scheduling plan.
• Schedule gas optimally to achieve least-cost/risk-managed portfolio of transportation and storage assets.
• With limited direction, implement intermediate level scheduling tactics for assigned assets.
• Submit accurate nominations to pipelines and LDCs to meet necessary deadlines.
• Proactively identify and resolve cuts.
• Monitor daily and monthly imbalance positions to inform optimal imbalance management within applicable tariff requirements, OFOs and other constraints.
• Communicate with Strategic Account Managers to ensure customer-requested gas quantities are being scheduled appropriately during times of operational constraint.
• Verify and execute annual, monthly, and daily pipeline capacity release transactions, as directed.
• Communicate with other schedulers and traders regarding market conditions to support overall portfolio optimization.
• Perform back-up daily gas trading as required.
• Support daily and monthly reporting on transportation asset utilization.
• Support daily and monthly gas settlements and reconciliation activity.
• Support key customer operational supply needs, as may be needed from time to time.
• Foster strategic relationship development with internal stakeholders and external market participants.
• Available for rotating weekday and weekend scheduling on-call responsibilities.

Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree – Engineering, Economics, Statistics, Computer Science or Business related.
• Five years of experience in natural gas scheduling and/or asset management.

Preferred Experience

• Familiarity and experience with scheduling Southeast, Gulf Coast, Mid-Atlantic, and/or Northeast pipelines and storage facilities.
• Comprehension of data analysis and management of large datasets in Excel or SQL to assess risk and inform commercial business decisions.

Location Requirements
Atlanta, GA or Gainesville, FL

Our Purpose and Culture

At Gas South, we approach each day knowing we have an opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives. That means helping our customers save money with everyday low rates and treating them with dignity, honesty and respect. It means supporting our employees in their personal and professional lives, and it means we want to make sure our success directly benefits the communities we serve by giving back 5% of profits to support children in need. Through partnerships with non-profits like United Way, Salvation Army, Junior Achievement, Bert’s Big Adventure and many others, we’re proud to help make a difference.  At Gas South our employees bring their boldest ideas and most authentic selves to work, no matter their title, position or background.  We understand that our people are our most valuable assets. So, we treat them that way, with competitive benefits, flexible schedule options, and a fun, casual atmosphere.

Gas South affirms that it is an Equal Opportunity Employer whose actions and practices are consistent with fair employment.  In this regard, Gas South will not discriminate against any employee or applicant with regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.  This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting, hiring, placement, training, promotion, lay-offs, transfers, leave of absence, compensation and termination.

Gas South is committed to fostering a diverse workforce and is an affirmative action employer.

Benefits for full-time employees include:

• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employer-paid life and disability coverage
• Annual employer contributions of up to 12.5% to your 401k
• Remote work options available based on business needs
• Annual performance incentive is a % of annual benchmark based on position level
• Paid four-week sabbatical every five years
• Opportunities to volunteer in the community
• Education assistance up to $5250 per year